Ibrox KO for Tyson
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Your support makes all the difference.Plans by Mike Tyson to fight in Scotland have been dealt a knockout blow after a date could not be arranged for the event.
Representatives of the fighter's European promoter Frank Warren visited Ibrox, home to Glasgow Rangers, last week to view the facilities at the 50,000-seater stadium.
But talks between the two sides came to a halt when the date for the proposed fight, scheduled for around July, could not be agreed.
Rangers secretary Campbell Ogilvie said that the club's football commitments meant that the plans had to be scrapped.
In January the former undisputed heavyweight world champion defeated Britain's Julius Francis in front of 22,000 fans at the MEN Arena in Manchester.
But critics said that the boxer should never have been allowed into the country because of his conviction for rape in 1992.
Tyson, who caused a storm of criticism after he infamously bit the ear of his adversary Evander Holyfield in 1997, is set to face Lou Saverese in Milan on May 20.
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